Times
of India: Gurgaon: Monday, 06 April 2015.
An RTI
application filed on December 15 by a Dhankot resident before the public
information officer (PIO), is yet to get a reply from the public works
department (PWD) of the government.
In the
application, Kamaldeep Gaur, the applicant, enquired why the road development
project was approved without acquiring the 50 acres of land required in Dhankot
through legitimate means. He asked nine questions to understand the project
stages. The project is meant to expand the two-lane road that connects Gurgaon
with Jhajjar via Farrukhnagar, into a four-lane state highway. Residents claim
the government has encroached upon the borders of agricultural fields to expand
the road, without acquiring the land from its rightful owners.
Gaur told TOI
that PWD officials told him HSDC (Haryana State Roads and Bridges Development
Corporation) is a position to reply to the application. When he approached
HSDC, they told him it is the PWD that is the right authority to seek a
response. That is when he filed the first appeal before superintending engineer
(SE) of PWD on January 21. "On two separate occasions, the office staff of
PWD told me that my case will be heard by the SE and accordingly, I will be
given a call. However, on both occasions, the hearing was cancelled at their
behest," said Gaur. Last month, he was allegedly assured of being informed
about a hearing soon, via a letter. It did arrive, but ironically, reached him
two days after the scheduled hearing date. "They sent me a letter on April
3 that reads the meeting was to take place on April 1," he said.
No one from
the superintending engineer's office could be contacted for a reaction.
PWD sent me a
letter on April 3 that read the meeting was to take place on April 1
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